Call Class based view from another class based view

[psychok7]

hi, i am trying to call a class based view and i am able to do it, but for some reason i am not getting the context of the new class

class ShowAppsView(LoginRequiredMixin, CurrentUserIdMixin, TemplateView):

template_name = "accounts/thing.html"

def compute_context(self, request, username):

u = get_object_or_404(User, pk=self.current_user_id(request))

if u.username == username:

cities_list=City.objects.filter(user_id__exact=self.current_user_id(request)).order_by('-kms')

allcategories = Category.objects.all()

allcities = City.objects.all()

rating_list = Rating.objects.filter(user=u)

totalMiles = 0

for city in cities_list:

totalMiles = totalMiles + city.kms

return {'totalMiles': totalMiles , 'cities_list':cities_list,'rating_list':rating_list,'allcities' : allcities, 'allcategories':allcategories}

@method_decorator(csrf_exempt)

def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):

return super(ShowAppsView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)

def get(self, request, username, **kwargs):

return self.render_to_response(self.compute_context(request,username))

class ManageAppView(LoginRequiredMixin, CheckTokenMixin, CurrentUserIdMixin,TemplateView):

template_name = "accounts/smarturbia.html"

def compute_context(self, request, username):

action = request.GET.get('action')

city_id = request.GET.get('id')

u = get_object_or_404(User, pk=self.current_user_id(request))

if u.username == username:

if request.GET.get('action') == 'delete':

#some logic here and then:

ShowAppsView.as_view()(self.request)

What am i doing wrong guys?

[Tom Evans]

You're not returning the response created by calling the ShowAppsView
CBV, you just discard it. After that, control flows back in to the
ManageAppView CBV.

Cheers

Tom

[psychok7]

What do you mean not returnig?? i have a return statement. how should i do it?

[Jirka Vejrazka]

You have

ShowAppsView.as_view()(self.request)

at the end of the code you pasted below. That means that you get result of the ShowAppsView which gets immediatelly discarded ("forgotten") because you don't do anything with it.

You probably want

return ShowAppsView.as_view()(self.request)

but that's just a wild guess, I have not read your code thoroughly nor I use CBV's myself.

  HTH

    Jirka

[psychok7]

Thats it, it now works. thanks a bunch

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:14 PM, psychok7 <nun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you mean not returnig?? i have a return statement. how should i do
> it?
>

You have this code:

if u.username == username:
if request.GET.get('action') == 'delete':
#some logic here and then:
ShowAppsView.as_view()(self.request)

When you call the other CBV like this, it produces a response. You
don't store it anywhere, so it is discarded. In effect, you run the
entire other view, produce a response and throw it away.

I thought you should return the response at this point, but on closer
inspection of the code, this is in compute_context(), which probably
is expecting a context to be returned, not a response.

You may need someone with more experience in CBVs.

Cheers

Tom

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